BE FILM – The Underground Film Festival (BTUFF) who also hosts a Shorts Screening Series today announced their partnership with the leader in New York luxury boutique standard, The Bryant Park Hotel. BTUFF will begin its monthly Shorts Screening Series on September 13, 2006, at The Bryant Park Hotel’s 70-seat screening room, where industry executives and film lovers will be able to watch a series of shorts and also participate in a Q&A session with the film makers.
Hosted by a variety of filmmakers and industry leaders, The Shorts Screening Series will take place the second Wednesday of every month until February 2007 from 7-9 PM. Then from May 1- May 5, 2007, BTUFF will host its Fourth Annual Film Festival. The Bryant Park Hotel will be the hub of activity during the Festival, and the screening room will be transformed into The Festival’s VIP Lounge. Additional screenings will take place in the neighborhood.
“We are very excited to be part of this film festival,” said Phil Columbo, Asset and Managing Director of The Bryant Park Hotel. “We support independent film and are proud to showcase the work of these up-and-coming filmmakers in our screening room.”
“We are happy and excited to be able to anchor our festival in the heart of New York City in such a great venue as The Bryant Park Hotel Screening Room and benefit from all its amazing facilities such as The Cellar Bar for our after parties,” stated Laurence Asseraf, Founder of BeFilm.
About BE FILM
The Shorts Screening Series and Film Festival are organized by Be Film, The Underground Film Festival (BTUFF) previously known as Tribeca Underground Film Festival (TUFF). The mission of BTUFF is to showcase the best national and international short films in animation, documentary, narrative, and experimental categories. This year 57 films from over 15 countries including all Europe, Australia, and also China, Cuba, India, and Afghanistan were programmed in the festival. Aiming at becoming the largest short film festival on the East Coast, BTUFF provides a cultural and entertaining forum while recognizing and honoring independent emerging filmmakers through a panel of judges from the entertainment industry, who reviews the selected films and gives the awards. For ticketing information please call XX.
About The Bryant Park Hotel
Situated directly across from New York City’s storied Bryant Park, and steps away from the media, fashion, retail and transportation centers of Manhattan, The Bryant Park Hotel’s midtown address alone renders it prime accommodations for the business or leisure traveler alike. The hotel boasts 25 stories with over 100 spacious guest rooms, 16 suites, 10 park-view terraces, and a rooftop loft space with 360-degree skyline panoramas. Year-round neighbor to the fashion community, the Bryant Park Hotel is party to New York’s semi-annual Fashion Week and hosts innumerable events and functions celebrating industry elite; the hotel’s 3000-square-foot Cellar Bar, a subterranean haunt frequented by the young-professional set and celebrities incognito, bleeds into a spacious 70-seat private screening room favored by studio executives for its intimacy and progressive technology; and above ground, the celebrity-owned Los Angeles transplant Koi rounds out the hotel’s allure with its high-concept, pan-Asian menu, boldfaced patronage and minimalist environs.
